Join us for the free screening of The World Before Her and FilmHero's first official Women in Film Night. In honor of Women's History Month 2018, FilmHero is screening and celebrating works by women in film.
A film by Nisha Pahuja, The World Before Her is a fascinating portrait of two women and two Indias. It reveals a world of startling contrasts between urban and rural, jeans and saris, consumer culture and poverty, where rapid economic development fuels a sharpening conflict between tradition and modernity–especially when it touches on women and religion. In focusing on two particularly thoughtful young women–one a militant Hindu nationalist, the other a contestant for Miss India–The World Before Her provides a timely account of a multi-faceted, often confusing clash over values and the future of the world’s largest democracy.
About the Filmmaker:
Nisha Pahuja, Writer/Director/ProducerNisha Pahuja was born in New Delhi, India, and grew up in Toronto. She started off as a researcher for some of Canada’s brightest documentary talents, including John Walker and Ali Kazimi. She co-wrote and directed Diamond Road, a three part series on the global diamond trade for ZDF/Arte, TVO, Discovery Times and History Television. Diamond Road received the 2008 Gemini award for best documentary series. Pahuja’s Bollywood Bound, about a quartet of Indo-Canadians who travel to India to make it big in Bollywood, screened at numerous film festivals and was widely telecast around the world. It was the closing night film at Hot Docs 2001 and was nominated for a Gemini in 2002. The multi-award winning The World Before Her is her third film. It was selected as the opening night documentary at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2012 and has since been selected by more than 100 festivals worldwide.
This event is a collaboration with POV, the award-winning independent nonfiction film series on PBS (www.pbs.org/pov).
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A film by Nisha Pahuja, The World Before Her is a fascinating portrait of two women and two Indias. It reveals a world of startling contrasts between urban and rural, jeans and saris, consumer culture and poverty, where rapid economic development fuels a sharpening conflict between tradition and modernity–especially when it touches on women and religion. In focusing on two particularly thoughtful young women–one a militant Hindu nationalist, the other a contestant for Miss India–The World Before Her provides a timely account of a multi-faceted, often confusing clash over values and the future of the world’s largest democracy.
About the Filmmaker:
Nisha Pahuja, Writer/Director/ProducerNisha Pahuja was born in New Delhi, India, and grew up in Toronto. She started off as a researcher for some of Canada’s brightest documentary talents, including John Walker and Ali Kazimi. She co-wrote and directed Diamond Road, a three part series on the global diamond trade for ZDF/Arte, TVO, Discovery Times and History Television. Diamond Road received the 2008 Gemini award for best documentary series. Pahuja’s Bollywood Bound, about a quartet of Indo-Canadians who travel to India to make it big in Bollywood, screened at numerous film festivals and was widely telecast around the world. It was the closing night film at Hot Docs 2001 and was nominated for a Gemini in 2002. The multi-award winning The World Before Her is her third film. It was selected as the opening night documentary at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2012 and has since been selected by more than 100 festivals worldwide.
This event is a collaboration with POV, the award-winning independent nonfiction film series on PBS (www.pbs.org/pov).
Join us for the free screening of The World Before Her and FilmHero's first official Women in Film Night. In honor of Women's History Month 2018, FilmHero is screening and celebrating works by women in film.
A film by Nisha Pahuja, The World Before Her is a fascinating portrait of two women and two Indias. It reveals a world of startling contrasts between urban and rural, jeans and saris, consumer culture and poverty, where rapid economic development fuels a sharpening conflict between tradition and modernity–especially when it touches on women and religion. In focusing on two particularly thoughtful young women–one a militant Hindu nationalist, the other a contestant for Miss India–The World Before Her provides a timely account of a multi-faceted, often confusing clash over values and the future of the world’s largest democracy.
About the Filmmaker:
Nisha Pahuja, Writer/Director/ProducerNisha Pahuja was born in New Delhi, India, and grew up in Toronto. She started off as a researcher for some of Canada’s brightest documentary talents, including John Walker and Ali Kazimi. She co-wrote and directed Diamond Road, a three part series on the global diamond trade for ZDF/Arte, TVO, Discovery Times and History Television. Diamond Road received the 2008 Gemini award for best documentary series. Pahuja’s Bollywood Bound, about a quartet of Indo-Canadians who travel to India to make it big in Bollywood, screened at numerous film festivals and was widely telecast around the world. It was the closing night film at Hot Docs 2001 and was nominated for a Gemini in 2002. The multi-award winning The World Before Her is her third film. It was selected as the opening night documentary at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2012 and has since been selected by more than 100 festivals worldwide.
This event is a collaboration with POV, the award-winning independent nonfiction film series on PBS (www.pbs.org/pov).
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A film by Nisha Pahuja, The World Before Her is a fascinating portrait of two women and two Indias. It reveals a world of startling contrasts between urban and rural, jeans and saris, consumer culture and poverty, where rapid economic development fuels a sharpening conflict between tradition and modernity–especially when it touches on women and religion. In focusing on two particularly thoughtful young women–one a militant Hindu nationalist, the other a contestant for Miss India–The World Before Her provides a timely account of a multi-faceted, often confusing clash over values and the future of the world’s largest democracy.
About the Filmmaker:
Nisha Pahuja, Writer/Director/ProducerNisha Pahuja was born in New Delhi, India, and grew up in Toronto. She started off as a researcher for some of Canada’s brightest documentary talents, including John Walker and Ali Kazimi. She co-wrote and directed Diamond Road, a three part series on the global diamond trade for ZDF/Arte, TVO, Discovery Times and History Television. Diamond Road received the 2008 Gemini award for best documentary series. Pahuja’s Bollywood Bound, about a quartet of Indo-Canadians who travel to India to make it big in Bollywood, screened at numerous film festivals and was widely telecast around the world. It was the closing night film at Hot Docs 2001 and was nominated for a Gemini in 2002. The multi-award winning The World Before Her is her third film. It was selected as the opening night documentary at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2012 and has since been selected by more than 100 festivals worldwide.
This event is a collaboration with POV, the award-winning independent nonfiction film series on PBS (www.pbs.org/pov).
show less
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